Glow In The Dark Slime Recipe – My Kids Favorite & So Easy!
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How to Make A Glow In the Dark Slime Recipe
Did you know that Elmers makes Glow in the Dark Glue! My kids where so excited when we found out about this, because they immediately thought of making Glow in the Dark Slime! Since you can start with glow in the dark glue, this glow in the dark slime recipe is as easy as making any other slime recipe your kids love to make. But turn out the lights and it becomes so much more fun. It really and truly does glow in the dark.
We recently made a few batches of the glow in the dark slime, and used the regular slime recipe found in our free printable slime recipes sheet here. The kids loved it, and said it was their new favorite (in full disclosure, they often say that with the new slime recipes, but this one really is cool!).
This recipe is great in the sense that you do not need any extra special ingredients, you just need to switch out your regular white glue or clear glue in your slime recipes, for this glow in the dark glue. It is that simple. And yes, it really works!
Glow in the dark slime kits –
Our favorites are the Elmers Glow in the Dark Slime Kits, and these two are on sale currently!
- If you prefer to not hassel with supplies, you can also buy an Elmers glow in the dark slime kit here.
- Or the Dinosaur Slime Glow in the Dark Slime Kit here.
Ingredients needed for this DIY Glow in the Dark Slime Recipe:
- Just look for the Elmers Glow in the Dark Glue. We used one 5 oz container per batch of slime.
- Activator of choice (We used 1/4 cup of Stayflo Liquid Starch, or find our slime recipe using Borax here)
- Water (as needed)
How to Make Glow In The Dark Slime –
We used three different colors – blue, pink, and clear/yellow. They all glowed well. You could add glitter to your mix too, or other mix ins. I think out of all of them, the yellow color was our favorite if you are going to pick only one.
We started with the clear or yellow color (not really sure what that one would be called officially). I think it is actually the non-colored one, maybe? It ends up making a yellow green glow in the dark slime hue, is how I think I would best describe it.
Pour one container into a bowl, and then add your activator. We used 1/4 cup of Sta Flo as the activator for this batch (find our regular slime recipe here), but you can really use any slime recipe you want to make it.
Stir it until you get the consistency shown above. If it is too tough you can add water (we usually do one tsp at a time) and stir. Do this until you get the consistency that you want for your slime.
This is what our slime looked like in the light. Evidently the kids call these poop rolls, and my kids actually practice making them (eek!). They love to do this with their slime – ha!
And this is what it looked like when we turned out all the lights! It really glows, and my kids loved it. They play with it like regular slime, but it was also fun to watch it glow.
More Slime Recipes you might be interested in:
How to make your own DIY Slime Kit (great gift basket idea for birthdays and more)!
